"Eritrea - Scuola d'Arti e Mestieri 'S. Michele' a Saganeiti (62)" Printed on the back of the postcard is: Vi si insegnano le lingue italiana, tigrigna e america, geografia, aritmetica, dattilografia, fotografia ed I mestieri del sarto, del sellato, del falegname e del fabbro meccanico." A large Western-style school is made of brick and stone.
"Eritrea - Pellegrini in viaggio per la Mecca (132)" Printed on the back of the postcard is: "Il pellegrinaggio alla Mecca costituisce per coloro che lo compiono altre che il compito di un dovere religious, anche un titolo d'onore e di privilegio." Men wearing robes and caps and carrying long stick stand posing for the camera. Three young boys are seated in front of the men. A woman sits atop a camel in the background.
"Eritrea - Costume delle madri abissine (98)" Printed on the back of the postcard is: " I bimbi sono portali anzichè in braccio, in una specie di sacco di pelle guarnito di conchigliete, portato sui dorso dalle madri e dove passano tutta la giornata." A young Abyssinian woman is carrying her infant is decorated sling on her back.
"Africa (Eritrea) Missione delle Figlie di S. Anna -Fiori della vita e fiori digiardino - Dalta scuola alla chiesa d'Asmara" Printed on the back of the postcard is: "Figlie di S. Anna - Associazione fondata nel 1866, conta oggi più di 10,000 suore, in Europa, Asia, Africa, America. Fa opera di assistenze cristiana e umniaris in Ospedali, Case di Salue, Ricoveri, Manicomi, Carceri, Lazzaretti, Lebbrosal, ecc. - Si dedica al l'educazione cristiana, morale e civile in Asili d'Infanzia, Laboratori, Collegi, Pensionati, Instituti di Ciechi, Sordomuti, ecc. - Ha Misisnoi in Palestina, Eritrea e nell'America Meridionale. La Casa Generilizia in Roma 'Collegio Internazionale per le Missioni' Via Merulana 177" Young girls in white dresses and flowered head wreaths are carrying baskets as they march down a field. They are accompanied by a missionary sister as a crowd including priests and soldiers looks on.
"Africa (Eritrea) Missione delle Figlie di S. Anna -Un gruppo d'Orfanelli di Cheren [Keren]." Printed on the back of the postcard is: "Figlie di S. Anna - Associazione fondata nel 1866, conta oggi più di 10,000 suore, in Europa, Asia, Africa, America. Fa opera di assistenze cristiana e umniaris in Ospedali, Case di Salue, Ricoveri, Manicomi, Carceri, Lazzaretti, Lebbrosal, ecc. - Si dedica al l'educazione cristiana, morale e civile in Asili d'Infanzia, Laboratori, Collegi, Pensionati, Instituti di Ciechi, Sordomuti, ecc. - Ha Misisnoi in Palestina, Eritrea e nell'America Meridionale. La Casa Generilizia in Roma 'Collegio Internazionale per le Missioni' Via Merulana 177" Approximately twenty young children are kneeling in front of an enclosed area that has a statue of a saint in a niche. A missionary sister looks on.
"Africa (Eritrea) Missione delle Figlie di S. Anna - Il Saluto della Scuola d'Asmara al tricolore." Printed on the back of the postcard is: "Figlie di S. Anna - Associazione fondata nel 1866, conta oggi più di 10,000 suore, in Europa, Asia, Africa, America. Fa opera di assistenze cristiana e umniaris in Ospedali, Case di Salue, Ricoveri, Manicomi, Carceri, Lazzaretti, Lebbrosal, ecc. - Si dedica al l'educazione cristiana, morale e civile in Asili d'Infanzia, Laboratori, Collegi, Pensionati, Instituti di Ciechi, Sordomuti, ecc. - Ha Misisnoi in Palestina, Eritrea e nell'America Meridionale. La Casa Generilizia in Roma 'Collegio Internazionale per le Missioni' Via Merulana 177" A group of girls in white uniforms are making a straight-arm salute to the flags hanging from the front of the Scuola re Vittorio Emanuele II.
"Collège Saint-Marc - Alexandrie (Egypte). -7. Salle des Professeurs" The staff room in the Collège Saint Marc contains many individual wooden desks with lamps and chairs. It is a spacious room with high ceilings.
"Serie IV - Egitto - Canale" On the back of the postcard is printed: "A beneficio dell' Associazione Nazionale per soccorrer I Missionari italiani (riconosciuta in Ente Morale - Segretariato Generale: Torino , Via Accademia delle Scienze)" Three wooden boats with masts are pulled up along the side of the canal. A wooden bridge crosses the canal in the background. There are two robed people on the embankment and some men on the boats.
"Series III - Egitto - Villaggio di contadini" On the back of the postcard is printed: "A beneficio dell' Associazione Nazionale per soccorrer I Missionari italiani (riconosciuta in Ente Morale - Segretariato Generale: Torino , Via Accademia delle Scienze)" A series of flat roofed mud brick dwellings are set close to a river. Some animals, people and piles of firewood are in front of the huts.
"Serie III - Egitto - Mercato di villagio" On the back of the postcard is printed: "A beneficio dell' Associazione Nazionale per soccorrer I Missionari italiani (riconosciuta in Ente Morale - Segretariato Generale: Torino , Via Accademia delle Scienze)" Women in dark robes sit on the ground with baskets in front of them as a large crowd mingles at the outdoor market. Mud brick buildings and palm trees are seen in the background.
"Mahalla (Egypte) - Le Dispensaire. Congrégation des Soeurs de N.-D. des Apotres pour les Missions Africaines - Vénissieux (Rhône). A large group of primarily women and children is gathered in front of a brick building. The women wear robes and headcoverings. A missionary sister stands behind a table that holds various bottles.
"Colonies Françaises. Dahomey [now Benin] - Eglise de Porto-Novo" A few people are sitting on the front steps of a Western-style church that hascross-topped pointed façade and a round window above an arched door.
"Missions Africaines, 150, Cours Gambetta, Lyon. Dahomey [now Benin] - Eglise d'Athiémé." The congregation is standing in front of a Western-style church with a tall cross-topped tower in front.
"Dahomey [now Benin] - Temple des serpents à Ouidah" Printed on the back is "No. 3 - Verlag der Kathol. Mission in Lome" The temple is a long low building with thatched roof. Thatched round huts are connected by rooms with lower roofs.
"Missions Africaines, 150, Cours Gambetta, Lyon. Dahomey [now Benin] - Temple des serpents à Ouidah." A long low building with thatched roof is shown amidst some trees. Several men stand in front.
"Dahomey [now Benin] - Ouidah - La Cathédrale - De ce côte-ci de la place se trouve le grand temple du Serpent pithon, principal fétiche du pays." A large Western-style church with central tower is portrayed.
"Dahomey [now Benin] - Jeunes filles chrétiennes. Soeurs Missionnaires de Notre-Dame des Apotres - Vénissieux (Rhône)" About twenty young girls, most in native dress, pose for the camera.
"Congrégtion des Soeurs de N.-D. des Apotres pour les Missions Africaines - Vénissieux (Rhône). Le déjeuner des Internes à Porto-Novo (Dahomey) [now Benin]"
"8. Missions Africaines de Lyon - 1950, Cours Gambetta, Lyon - Dahomey [now Benin] - Les petits choristes de Porto-Novo" Six young people with lace-decorated tops and skirts pose for the camera.
"Le P. Borghero des Missions Africaines de Lyon, premier missionarie au Dahomey [now Benin] est reçu par le roi Gléglé. Exposition Coloniale 1931 - Section des Missions Africaines - 150, Cours Gambetta, Lyon" The exhibit portrays a missionary priest being received by a king sitting on a throne with attendants surrounding him. The sign describing the exhibit is visible.
"Agoué (Dahomey) [now Benin] - Jeunes filles noires faisant la dentelle au fuseau. Congrégation des Soeurs de N.-D. des Apotres pour les Missions Africaines - Vénissieux (Rhône)" Four young girls are making lace with a bobbin as a missionary sister looks on and sews lace together.
"Exposition Coloniale 1931 - Section des Missions Africaines - 150 Cours Gambetta, Lyon - Reconstitution d'une leçon de catéchisme au Dahomey [now Benin]" The exhibit portrays several natives being taught by a missionary priest. A thatched roof building is in the background."
"2969 - Rép. Centre Africaine - Bangui - La Cathédrale" A large Western-style church has towers on either side of a center section with peaked roof and arched doors and windows.
"Mission d'Ouagadougou (Hte. Volta) [Burkina Faso] 6. Tambourinier" A man wearing a straw skirt is playing a round drum that appears to be made from a gourd or calabash.
"Missions Des Pères Blancs - Bobo Dioulasso - Village de Koro sur les rochers" A man and three boys are sitting and standing on a hillside of large striated boulders.
"Bobo Dioulasso - Haute Vola (A.O.F.) [Burkina Faso] No. 1 - L'Eglise" A rectangular building made of brick or stone has dual stairways meeting under an arched window and an arched door on ground level.
"1, Bénin - Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur à Abéokuta. Missions Africaines, 150 Cours Gambetta, Lyon" [now Nigeria] A large building made of brick or stone has arched windows and flat roofs on various levels.
"5. Bénin - Eglise d'Idjébu Odé. Missions Africaines, 150 Cours Gambetta, Lyon" A Western-style church with a bell tower is show with a few people seated in front of it. A two-storey building with porches is in the background.
"10. Bénin - Mission de Stupaji. Missions Africaines, 150 Cours Gambetta, Lyon" Two missionary fathers and a few natives are standing in front of two large thatched roof buildings.
"2. Bénin - Eglise d'Ikiré - Jour de Confirmation. Missions Africaines, 150 Cours Gambetta, Lyon" A congregation of approximatelyl forty people stands in front of a rectangular building with a thatched roof. Two missionary fathers stand in front of the group
"7. Bénin - Eglise d'Eruku. Missions Africaines, 150 Cours Gambetta, Lyon" Approximately thirty men and women are posed in front of a building that has an irregularly shaped thatched roof and a cross on top. A missionary father with pith helmet stands in the back row.
"Angola - Congrégation des Soeurs indigènes dirigée par les Soeurs de Sait [Saint]-Joseph de Cluny" Eleven indigenous sisters and two missionary sisters are posed in an outdoor setting with a statue of Mary in the background.
"Interior da Igreja de N. a Sr. a das Victorias - Huambo" An elaborate altar is set behind a railing in a church with a high ceiling, arched windows, and vaulted roof.
"Caconda - Au lavage. Congrégation de S'Joseph de Cluny, 21 Rue Méchain, Paris" Four women are using basins and the water of a river or lake to wash clothes. A missionary sister looks on in the background.
"Benguella [Benguela]. Escola-régia - A primeira Communhão em 1908." A large group of children poses for the camera with a hut on a tall platform in the background. The girls wear white dresses and headcoverings.
"Caconda - En classe - Soeur Indigène. Congrégation de S'Joseph de Cluny, 21 Rue Méchain, Paris" The children are sitting at bench desks looking at books while an indigenous sister and missionary sister look on. There is an easel or blackboard in the front. The class appears to be taking place in the courtyard of a building.
"La caravane du Missionnaire - Reseferlige Missionskarawane (Angola)" A missionary priest in a pith helmet stands in from of a thatched roof hut with several porters carrying loads on their heads. Additional luggage is on the ground.
"Angola. Filant la toile pour la Mission. Congrégation de Saint Joseph de Cluny, 21, Rue Méchain, Paris" Two nuns and several young women are using hand-held sticks to spin fibers into thread.
"6. Le premier signe de la croix d'une petite Angolaise" A missionary priest is sitting on a chair showing a small girl how to hold her hands to make the sign of the cross. A thatched-roof hut is in the background.
"Angola - Postulante Indigène enseignant la prière. Congrégation de S'Joseph de Cluny, 21 Rue Méchain, Paris" A woman with striped dress and headcovering is kneeling at right with her hands together in prayer. More than twenty children face her in the position of prayer.
"Missão Catolica do Bailundo (Angola)" A man appears to be cutting up an animal with a knife while members of a family look on, kneeling and standing in front of a hut with thatched roof. There is a large pot and some firewood in the foreground.
"6. Angola Mission de Malange. La Fanfare du Frére Aimé. Missions des Peres du Saint-Esprit 30, Rue Lhomond, Paris" A priest holding a trumpet is surrounded by several young men and boys holding instruments.
"Missão Catolica do Bailundo (Angola)" Native men are sitting on bench desks facing the front of what appears to be a school room. Three teachers are in the front.
